Williamsburg Regional Library

Hitler's girl, the British aristocracy and the Third Reich on the eve of WWII, Lauren Young

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index

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Hitler's girl

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Lauren Young

the British aristocracy and the Third Reich on the eve of WWII

Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacence and complicity of the English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition--and very nearly succeeded. At what point does complacency become complicity, posing real risk to the democratic norms that we take for granted? Will democracy again succeed--and will it require a similarly cataclysmic event like World War II to ensure its survival? Will we, in our own defining moment, stand up for democratic values--or will we succumb to political extremism?"--, Provided by publisher

German fascism crosses the English Channel -- More dangerous than the Blackshirts: secret right-wing movements in Britain -- A short history of the long history of British anti-semitism -- The debutante Nazi -- "Sweet Dr. Goebbels": fascist friendships -- Whose side? The other story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - The Wolkoff affair -- Hitler's girl -- Afterword: Hitler's child?

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British aristocracy and the Third Reich on the eve of WWII